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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
Drunkenness and Labor Troubles.
Mr.. Powderly, in recent interview,

MIR. POWderly, IN recent interview, is
reported as saying:
"There is no disgrace deeper and more
marked than the disgrace that hovers
around the drunkard. They impose upon
us i'll the order. They bring on trouble be-
tween employers and honest workingmen.
They 60 to work drunk, are discharged,
and. SOLDERING up, they appear before their
assemblies and present their grievances.
But one side is heard, and the complainant
seems to be much abused man. Are we
justified in keeping such impostors with us?
Can We excuse men who willfully neglect
their duty as employees and as willfully
delude their brother workmen? Yet my
self am called upon frequently to take a
hand in the settlement of labor troubles
attributable to this cause. Recently 1 had
occasion to interfere in dispute of large
proportions, wherein the hands sought to
sustain one of their number who had been
discharged. He had represented himself
as a badly treated man. and had so worked
upon the feelings OF his fellows that they
supported him at sacrifice of work and
pay. What did he do to cause a discharge?
his hat up in a strange place, and it fell
down into tub of valuable liquid, spoil
ing it. Was that good case to make a
fight on? think not"
Gas have said before, the rum habit is
one of our greatest enemies, and until we
get it under control we will have an uphill
struggle to sustain our principles. I deny
that l am an autocrat, but in one thing
wish to be. If my word should be law
there would be no more intemperance, and
with no more intemperance there would
soon be fewer labor troubles"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

Gov. GORDON was asked at Philadel-
phia what progress the colored people
were making in Georgia and replied:
"They are advancing. The negroes
see the advantages of education and
every colored child in the State is
anxious to get all the scholastic adj
vantages possible. AS soon as the
colored man becomes educated he be-
comes self-respecting and better
citizen. He wants to own a home and
he will make every sacrifice to pur-
chase one. Once he becomes land
owner he becomes also good citizen. !"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

The total forest area of the United
States, according to the chief of the
forestry division, is S9,91O,OOO, and of
this 100000 acres are in Florida.
But one state, Minnesota, has greater
forest growth; but three, Arkansas,
California and Oregon, are estimated
to have the same acreage. The pro-
portion of forest to total area in Flor
ida is 56.7 per cent. and the forest
area held in farms is 2,1S6, 6O1 acres,
or 1913 per cent. of the total forest
area. The proportion of forest in
farms to the total farm area is 66.3 per
cent. The area of land in farms un-
improved, but not in forests, is 1853, OS3
acres, or per cent. of the total farm
area.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

FRANc1s JOSEPH, Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, has more royal
titles than any other European sover-
eign. He is King of seven countries
or provinces, Grand Prince of one,
Prince or Margrave of several others,
and Archduke, Grand Duke, and
Duke of half q dozen more. He is
considered the richest monarch of
Europe, with the possible exception of
Queen Victoria. Besides his personal
revenues, which are enormous, the
Emperor manages on various pretexts
to extract about 100000 a year from
the public treasury.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
The Best Watchdog.

San francisco Examiner.
But for persons who would rather risk an
encounter with thieves than lose their goods, q
well bred. rough haired terrier. weighing about
twelve pounds makes a capital house protector.
He is likely to be full of intelligence, and will
not give an alarm without cause. If he hears
noise he will thoroughly investigate it before he
barks. No passing footsteps. no wind-rattled
shutters-in fact, nothing but an absolute at
tempt to get feloneously into the house,
will induce him to arouse the in
ened he will go very quietly from door
to door, and from window to window. shifting
softly at each, and ascertain the exact state of
affairs. Then if his voice is heard it Is time for
every body to get up. The robbers will always
certainly run away when they hear him. but if
there is any 'unpleasantness the dog may be
trusted to do his full share of the work though
he could not undertake it alone. Such dog
should never be allowed to fraternize with
strangers to take food from unaccustomed
hands though probably his disposition will not
lead him to do So but poisoned meat surrepti-
tously thrown over the fence is great aid to
burglars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27

200 per cent. more than the cash prices OF the
goods that he bought; the landlord got fourth,
sometimes third, half of the proceeds of
this robbery. 1t was "a game OF two pluck one,"
sort of cut-throat euchre in which the tenant
was the victim. The merchant soon learned,
however, to swindle both tenant and landlord
The business developed class of dealers in
country places and small towns that were little
better than common thieves. Shvlocks and
sharpers rushed into this trade. They made
money rapidly. Many of them have already
tired from business and are living at ease upon
their ill-gotten gains; others have moved into
the larger towns and cities and have become
wholesale dealers and jobbers. The planters,
who at first encouraged them in their unblush-
ing frauds and heartless extortions upon their
poor ienorants tenants. have not Jared so we'll
What was intended to make the tenant a peon
has made the landlord pauper He digged
pit and fell into himself" as the Psalmist SAYS.
His land, much of it fertile, in a most genial
and delightful climate. with the best natural
advantages, is covered with a mortgage. which
he never satisfy. This land can now be
bought almost for song. Thus another folly
comes to a miserable end. Blind, laundering
politics led to a rebellion and disastrous war;
An attempt to establish peouaee rather than
accept free labor has resulted in financial ruin.
What next3 MAC
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
How Dishonesty Is Encouraged.

Boston Transcript
The Listener is reminded, by story in the
local columns of morning paper, of the dis
couragements which sometimes attend the doing
of good deed. The story is of small boy who
tina. had been given him in change. and took the
coin back to the young lady cashier" who had
given it to him. The young woman promptly
sion with masculine associate to how the
piece came in the cent compartment of the
money drawer" AS the honest boy was not in
terested in the question how IL came there, he
withdrew. That was all. H8c fabulse docet, il
it docet anything. very much the same thing
that one did OF which the Listener had
certain knowledge. small boy OF his
acquaintance, a very honest small boy in
deed, founds that dog that had strsyed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27


The authors readings to be given at Chick
ering Hall next week promise not only to be
full of interest, but eminently successful from a
pecuniary point of view. On Monday. Nov %,
Bishop Potter will introduce Mr.. Lowell who
will make address and will take the chair as
president of the American Copyright League
He will be followed by Edward Eggleston,
MARK Twain" R. H. Stoddard H c. Bunner,
James Whtcomb Riley. and George W. Cable.
On Tuesday. Nov 20, Mr.. Lowell. presiding,
will be followed by Col. r. NJ Johnston, author
of Georgia Sketches" George w. Curtis, w. d.
Howells, Tomas Nelson Page, F. r. Stockton,
and Charles Dudley Warner. The readings will
begin each day at 2 o'clock.
1t is worth note that every one of these gentle
men has had more or less experience in public
reading and speaking Mr.. Lowell Mr.. Curtis,
Mr.. Clemens, Mr. Gable. DR.. Eggleston, and Mr..
Warner are well known in this regard. Mr.
Riley, from Indiana, has more than local repu-
tation for effective elocution. Mr.. Page of Vir-
ginia. is lawyer well writer of ability.
Col Johnston, of Baltimore, formerly of Geor-
gia, has read much in the South. Mr.. Bunner,
Mr.. Howells. Mr.. Gable and DIR. Eggleston will
all probably read from unpublished works. 1t
is gratifying to know that large proportion of
the seats for both days have already been taken.
Others at 50 can be held at Brentanos. Scrib-
ners, Putnam's, Randolph's, and at Chickering
Hall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27

INTO the neiehborhood was advertised for. He
gathered up the dog and took him to the ad-
vertised address, proud in the consciousness of
having done a good deed. As he had
entered the place, which was store. the pro-
prietor seized the dog and kicked the boy out
OF the store, accompanying the physical indig-
you to steal nv doglr The boy came home with
tears in his eyes. 81 shall never, never, take
home another dog" was the lesson that he had
learned from mis- experience. Another friend of
the Listener's-a man tais time-took back a
gold dollar that he found among some pennies
and felt that he must have received at certain
place. II will take your dollar said the gruff
cashier thrusting it promptly into box, s'but
/ doubt very much whether any mistake has
been made!" He did not take the trouble to ex-
plain what right he could have to the dollar il
no mistake had been made; he simply wanted
the money and the credit for infAlhbility in
making change too How much does the world
that everybody else either does not know very
much or else is a rascall
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
HANGMEN'S ROPES.
The Man Whe Made Guiteau's Rope Says HI
Made It DoublY Strong.

The Man w he Made GulCeau's Rope says he
Made It Doubly Strong.
Pittsburg Comm ercIal Gazette.
Jacob Rupp. of Woods Run, has made the
rope used in every execution in this country
since 1910, and nearly every one that has been
used in the state. In speaking yesterday with a
reporter he said:
"a hangman's rope is made of hemp. is five-
eiehths of an inch thick and has four strands and
a heart. The hemp after being well pounded,
is put through the matches There are five of
these made of the finest steel, firmly fixed in a
wooden frame. The teeth in the first one
about one-quarter of an inch wide and the last
are about the size of darning needles.
The hemp is drawn through these like hair
through a comb, until it is all the same size and
perfectly free from loose fiber and dirt. Then
comes the spinning into yarn. When this is
done the four strands of rope are made by put
usual number of strands in a hangmans rope Is
sixtyfour. Then these strands are made into
rope. closed as call it. The rope is not stretch
ed, but well rubbed with bees-wax until it be-
comes soft and pliable
81 always tie the moose concluded Mr.. Rupp,
not know how to tie q bangman's knot l have
made the ropes which hanged eighty seven per-
sons and have just finished several more. The
first one made was for Mrs. Miller. who was
hanged at Williamsport in 1910. Then made
those which were used in the execution of Henry
Fife and Charlotte Jones. l made three at one
time for Allegheny county; two for Marshal and
Frecke. who murdered a ieweler on Boyd's
Hill. and one for Mrs. Grinder. Among the next
in this county were for Frank Small and Ward
McConkey. The only pleasure l ever took in
making one of these instruments of death was
when made the one which hanged Guiteau. I
took special pains with it and put in 124 strands
to make it doubly strong. l always keep piece
feet long, that the sheriff can cut off four or
five feet to give to his friends"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
Conquerinc Country Boys.

New York Graphic.
Chauncey NJ. Depew used to run barefoot
around Peekskill till Commodore Vanderbilt
took fancy to him,
Russell Sage will never be anything but a
countryman if he lives in the metropolis for
another sixty years.
Whiteiaw Reid is from Ohio, and was some
thirty years getting the hayseed out of his wavy
hair.
Thomas G. Plat was born farm, and is
never happier than whom he is taking e morn
ing constitutional through plougned ground.
William M. Evarts is another countryman. He
comes from Vermont and he's a good all-round
farmer up there yet. He has a model farm
which he spends the summer.
Jay Gould inventive country boy, who
came to this town with patent mousetrap.
He's been batting mousetraps ever since
L. NJ Bates was q country boy. and gained his
first experience In commerce tending a cross
roads store. 1t wasn't long before he owned it.
Henry Ward Beecher was a country boy, his
father having small charge IN sparsely set
tied region. Beecher was never SO content as
when playing his hose his Peekskill farm
Dewitt c. Talmage still looks the angular
countryman that he is. and he first expanded his
lungs calling to a team Of oxen.
Most of our prominent Irish American citizens
were born on farms on their native island, and
their looks ahow It
Addison Cammack is a Georgian. who was
raised on plantation, and wore shoes only on
Sunday as youngster.
Tom Ochiltree is another Southerner He was
a cowboy in Texas for ten years. and CALAMITY
earned the sobriquet of ''the Red Headed Ran
ger of the Rio Grande."
Sunset Cox hoed potatoes as lad on his
fathers farm near GAINESVILLE, o. He used to
crack jokes then easily as he cracked walnuts.
Abram S. Hewitt was a red -cheeked boy, whose
garments were made by the village seamstress,
when he first came to New York.
Roscoe Conklng was born in Utica. But on 1y
Rochester or Syracuse people call him an ex-
ountryman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
AMERICANS ABROAD.
Privileged Characters in the Eng fish Metro
polis-Buffalo Bi1l's Success

Privileged Characters in the Eng Itsh Metro
polis-Buffalo BilPs Success
London Letter.
Americans have a larger license than untitled
Europeans in this capital. 1t Is not an unreason-
able enlargement of this phrase to say that they
are just now the fashion. Into the terra santa,
around which a wall of exclusion arises to fence
out profanum vulgus, the Yankee penetrates.
and thereafter ne is as unapproachable and
intan gible any royal Duke The transmuta-
ton he undergoes by the mere process of an In
PRODUCTION is so absolute that his old friends fail
to recognize him, be certainly loses his old
warmth for them. There are two or three ex-
captions to that rule of apotheosis among Ameri-
cans, and on is he who in full dress is called
Hon. w. F. Cody, but in leggngs and moccasins
Buffalo Bill. whose show. example and biography
have stirred enthusiastic British lads into such
exaggerated limitations of the type to have
landed some of them within the jurisdiction OF
the municipal magstracy. One of these sol
disant scouts stole Ell from 9 relative, and.
having hired horse and bought a revolver set
out for Epping Forest, not for such sport as
Tom Hood describes in his "Epping Hunt" but
for the more serious occupation of Paul Cliff
ford"
The admiration has not been by any means
the exclusive property of romantic youngsters.
How successful has been the social career OF the
hero of the "Wild West Exhibition" 1 have
spoken of in former letter. Il was such a
distinction to have him at an cat Homo" that
the cards of invitation bear the triumphant leg
end: Buffalo Bill will be present" Ladies
struggled for his possession as if the world had
been stripped of all males except bIm But the
cap-sheaf of the stack belongs to the "Ilondon
Workingmen's Association" which has present
ed him with an address, following the fashion of
municipal greetings to royalty, thanking him
for 1.-The educational opportunities afforded by
his show" paying a tribute to the daring deeds
of his early manhood" and his political quail
ties as a legislator" If to ali these conquests
and triumphs be added the heaps of pounds,
shillings and pence he is said to have gathered,
one must admit that Buffalo Bill" is an except
ionally lucky dog. But let say that he is no
common man. Compimented by the Queen, in
person, enjoying measured intimacy with the
Prince of Wales, q common kissing Titan" to
hosts of subordinates and the idol of England's
youth he is still tho accessible. amiable
and agreeable gentleman when he first put
his feet on British soil. Would that ali his
countrymen and countrywomen were made of
Just such admirable stuff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
Half-Smoked Cigars.
ancisco Chronicle.


Senator Jones of Nevada was walking along
MONTGOMERY street yesterday, his half
smoked cigar seemed not suit his taste, and
he airly threw it upon the pavement Instant
" q man darted from the side of the walk and
picked up the butt" The action caught a re-
porters eye aud he spoke to the man abont his
action.
What did you pick toat up for2 You don't
propose to smoke it, do your
The man started violently and his face turned
a lobster red color, as though he had been de-
tected in a guilty act, although why he should
do so not apparent. Speedily recovering
his composvre, however, he replied:
Il sells them, l picks them up. puts them in
this box"-and he pointed to an old cigar-box ia
his hand-.and takes them my room. There
I sort them into their diffeyent kinds and then
sell them to Druggists and cigarette manufact-
urers."
ssDo you make anything by itf'
s.Well not much more than a living" and the
mans dress and appearance substantiated his
statement
from subsequent Investigations it appears
that druggists buy these butts" to get various
poisous from them, although in a majority of
cases they do not mako the poisons themselves,
but sell them TO manufacturing chemist, The
cigarette factories use the butts only in the
manufacture of the cheapest kind of cigarette
tobacco.
lit is notwarth our while to use them much"
said cigarette manufacture, " for leaf tabacco
is SO cheap that the cost of the putt made over
into an infersor tobacco is fully much AS the
superior grade Of leaf tobacco used in making
the paper-cigars."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
APLEA FOR NATIVE MUSIC.
The Preference for Foreign Singers and Com
posers Sharply Criticised.

posers Sharply Criticised
New York Commercial Advertiser.
1t was the ia lion little while ago for the
public to listen only to opera yawped in ltslian;
it is the fashion just now to tolerate nothing but
opera howled in cultural German. The one
fashion Is as senseless as the other, and Doth
anteconistic to the progress of art.
What should We say of public which should
suffer fashion to deal in the same way with
other forms of artl How we should revile and
resent decree of Society which should out
law all but Italian paintings or Italian litera-
ture at one time, and all but German paintings
or literature at another! Yet there IS no
more sense or reason in fashions dealing
with music than there would be in q like course
toward any other form of art.
AS matters now stand no American composer
is permitted to write grand opera with the least
hope of getting fair hearing for his work or
having it judged upon its merits. No American
man of letters is permitted to write libretto
with the remotest chance of seeing it treated
with tenth part of the consideration shown
TO librettos in other languages. Further than
that, no American singer male or female, can
hope to compete anything like fair terms
with singers of equal merit from other lands
before American audiences, until foreign aud
fences have approved the voice and the manner.
Our impressarios understand this prejudice
thoroughly and bow to it. They not only import
German conductors to present German works In
the German language but they go to the second
and third-class theaters and opera houses OF
Europe for their singers. major and minor. a. II
there were no. singers here who could be trusted
to take even the less i'm tant roles in an opera
The result is that the American singer. as well
the American composer is set aside in favor
of the German, and great and apparently i'm
passible barrier is set to the development OF
native art and skill in music.
If we ever to have musical culture in this
country, we must have musical art here, and to
have that we must be open minded and liberal
toward it. We must abandon the notion that
music in the verBacular is less worthy than mu-
sic IN a foreign tongue. We must cure ourselves
of the intellectual weakness which prompts our
fash;onab folk to think it is bad form" to adj
mire American work, American voice,
o to find pleasure in works sung in our own
language. The Germans would never have had
the rank they hold in music if they had followed
idiotc a lead as that which fashion sets US in
this country. They have insisted, on the con-
trary, upon having their operas sung in their
own tongue. by singers OF their own land, and
so they have created the art which we meekly
borrow of them. When we adopt like course,
and hold up the hands of own artists we
may hope to rank as a musical people. At pres
emit we merely playing at musical culture
under the direction of fashion which is de-
grading to US. We doing in art what the
dude does in clothing and manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
Thirteen Games of Chess at Once.

Boston Post.
At the rooms of the Boston Chess Club in
Pemberton square, last night was witnessed one
of the most exciting, and in some respects the
Cured in this city. when Captain Mackenzie
contended single handed and simultaneously
against thirteen of the strongest players Of the
club. Among those present were Maj. j. Moore
Hanham, of New York, and Capt. 0. e. Mac
ailis, United States army. The thirteen tables
were placed in two parallel rows down the centre
of the club-fooms. Up and down the space be-
tween them moved the Captain. At the conclu-
sion of the contest the score showed that Cap
tain Mackenzie had won eight games, lost three
with two drawn, and tine victor was accorded an
merited. rst